Carmina

Catullus

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.

  1. For I requesting to be Sestius' guest
  2. Read against claimant Antius a speech,
  3. Full-filled with poisonous pestilential trash.
  4. Hence a grave frigid rheum and frequent cough
  5. Shook me till fled I to thy bosom, where
  6. Repose and nettle-broth healed all my ills.
  7. Wherefore recruited now best thanks I give